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VOSD Podcast: Friendsgiving
The hosts are joined by reporters Alain Stephens and Cristina Kim to talk about happy holiday things like bathrooms, racist deeds and guns.

By Nate John, the Voice of San Diego
November 24, 2021
This week on the VOSD Podcast, hosts Scott Lewis, Andrew Keatts and Andrea Lopez-Villafaña are joined by local reporters Alain Stephens and Cristina Kim to talk about happy holiday things like bathrooms, racist deeds and guns. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Kim, a KPBS reporter, laid out the facts of her recent series that showed how explicit housing deeds were in San Diego that barred certain races of people from neighborhoods; some of these deeds are still around today.
And Stephens, from gun violence news outlet The Trace, explained ghost guns — and shared recent reporting he’s done on Black militias in the U.S.
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